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14 TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2007 THE INDEPENDENT THE INDEPENDENT TUESDAY 30 OCTOBER 2007 15 s t r Desert A storm TV, Satellite & Radio listings Dubai is the brashest, most OTT city 16-19 in the world, and now it has a pop festival Last Night’s to match. Simon Hardeman mingled TV 22 with the Gucci-wearing crowd for two Reviews 20-21 days of bling – and a bit of music, too ubai is bling apparent string or horn compo- Marley had ignored local organ- fatback guitar particularly hot. city: it has the nent. The harpist was a partic- isers’ requests not to sing The penultimate “Tell Me About world’s tallest ularly forlorn figure, only occa- “Shalom” in a set whose high It” was a tour de force, where entertainment listings building (the sionally called upon to pluck a points were jolly readings of his each band member took stun- DUCHESS THEATRE 0870 890 1103 NOVELLO 0870 950 0921 PLAYHOUSE THEATRE Burj Dubai), few chords, but perched high and father’s hits, and Madness had ning solos. By the time Stone fin- Theatre tH TRAFALGAR STUDIOS 0870 060 6632 the largest looking impossibly alluring: she put in a tired but expat-pleasing ished with a breathlessly soulful To advertise in 19 Amazing Year To advertise in DESPERATELY 0870 060 6631/0844 847 1545 BUDDY ## ## PATRICK KIELTY shopping mall, was so Dubai. greatest-hits set. Both were “Leave Me Alone”, no one was ADELPHI 0870 895 5598 Theatre Listings SEEKING SUSAN FOOTLOOSE and the most ludicrously OTT Musical bling aside, West was entertaining, but as much in the happy to acquiesce. It was just a The Buddy Holly Story A NIGHT IN NOVEMBER D “A DREAM TICKET” The Sun Theatre Listings please call A New Musical witH the songs of Mon-Sat 7.45 Fri 5.30 & 8.30 Sat 3 shoreline developments (includ- tremendous. 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Pah just to make up the numbers – overpowering (a sign at the air- ly there for the teenybop sensa- Wed & Sat mat 3.00 JULIAN CLARY AMY NUTTALL – there are two look-alikes going whether on the concert’s bill or port announces that possession tion Mika. He is almost the exact RENT OLD VIC 0870 060 6628 Mon, Wed-Sat 7.30pm, Tue 7pm CHRISTIAN SLATER CHICAGO THE PHANTOM OF up next to each other. Its new air- his own. His one-and-a-half-hour of drugs is punishable by death), antithesis of West – white where tH The Hit Musical CABARET Mats THu & Sat 2.30 Helen Baxendale Matt SmitH ALDWYCH THEATRE 0870 400 0845 10 SENSATIONAL YEAR THE OPERA ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER port will be bigger than Cardiff. set in the 26C heat of late evening and Madness because they sing the latter is black, light where “A SMASH HIT” D. Tel Mon-THurs 8, Fri 4.30 & 8, Sat 3 & 8 witH DENISE VAN OUTEN www.marypoppins.co.uk SWIMMING WITH SHARKS ‘Like Madonna at Her best’ “ ***** “****A feast of fine acting” D. 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As he AMBASSADORS www.boeingboeing.co.uk THE WOMAN IN BLACK 0870 895 5577 / 0870 264 3333 08448 112 334 PALACE THEATRE 0870 890 0142 THE SMASH HIT MUSICAL WINNER 8 BEST MUSICAL AWARDS landish than the last for it to be- “Gold Digger”, and the crowd, in series of unconvincing, smooth, bounced around the stage, clad Criterion Theatre 0870 060 2313 Adapted by Stephen Mallatratt 6TH Sensational Year BASED ON THE SONGS OF ABBA Music by ELTON JOHN come reality in next to no time. their Gucci, Chanel, and Moschi- slick and indulgent tunes, in in dental white, he was like a kids’ Pop pickers: stars wowing the young Dubai crowd included BEST NEW COMEDY “A VINTAGE THRILLER TO “LAUGHALOT” Times Mon-THur 7.30, Fri 5.00 & 8.30, Book & Lyrics by LEE HALL And culture is what Dubai no finery, screamed back, as one, which her top-notch band, with TV presenter on a diet of indus- (clockwise from far left) Mika; Kanye West; Ziggy Marley; STOMP 2007 Olivier Awards CHERISH” The Times MONTY PYTHON’S Sat 3.00 & 7.30 Directed by STEPHEN DALDRY wants now. Earlier this year, Iron “We want greenbacks!” Boom- its former James Brown side- trial-strength E-numbers. Hy- Suggs of Madness; and Joss Stone NOUSHA SALIMI/AP; REUTERS ‘Expect to be amazed’ S. Tel John BucHan & Alfred HitcHcock’s Mon - Sat 8, Mats Tue 3 & Sat 4 TICKETS TONIGHT FROM £27.50 Mon-Sat 8, THur, Sat 3 SPAMALOT BILLY ELLIOT Maiden played the rock festival, town, you soon discover, is an men, barely got out of first gear. peractive toddlers must gaze THE 39 STEPS The Musical and now the poppier Desert irony-free zone. The most toe-curling moment upon him in awe. Garrick Theatre 0870 890 1104 witH Peter Davison & Bill Ward APOLLO THEATRE Mon-Sat 8pm, Tue 3pm, Sat 4pm “A HELL OF A LOT OF FUN” QUEENS THEATRE WitH JACKIE CLUNE Rhythm Festival has hit town Around the hour mark he be- was when she announced, in a His songs are pure Eurovision Mon-THur 8, Fri 5.15 & 8.30, Sat 3 & 8 0870 890 1101 PERFECT FOR ALL THE FAMILY Daily Telegraph 0870 950 0930 and JAMES GADDAS after expanding from last year’s came quiet and personal. “Every- voice wobbling unsurely back with candy-stripes through them JonatHan Pryce, Aidan Gillen BAD GIRLS Kids 5-15 pay tHeir age THE WORLD’S LONGEST Mon-Sat 7.30, THur & Sat 2.30 single day to two days of pop. It thing I’m not, made everything and forth across the Atlantic, of Freddie Mercury, Robbie DOMINION 0870 169 0116 £25 seats avail every day from 10.30am The Musical @FRI 5.15 (T&Cs apply) RUNNING MUSICAL took place over the weekend in I am,” he intoned, building that she had finally found her Williams and Elton John. He did 0870 890 0149 Some good seats avail. Mon-THur GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS Mon-Sat 7.30pm, THur & Sat 3pm a shallow grassy bowl in front of through references to the local- true love, and it was music.